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TAX CIRCULATION LAW: GOVERNMENT TO REVISE CONTROVERSIAL PROVISIONS AMID TRADERS' CONTINUING PROTESTS
10:50 * 08.10.14
In response to fair vendors' continuing protests against the new Tax
Circulation Law, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan has promised
government efforts to revise several controversial provisions.
After a meeting with several protesting vendors on Monday, he issued
an instruction asking the minister of finance to elaborate and submit
to the parliament a new draft law.
But the measure is not found satisfactory, as vendors do not expect
it to offer an exhaustive solution to the problem.
The controversial law, which went into effect on October 1, requires
inventory and document circulation procedures for all small- and
medium-sized businesses in Armenia.
Mikael Melkumyan of the opposition-leaning Prosperous Armenia party
is of the opinion that the government efforts will be limited only to
delaying the effective date of the relevant provision until February 1.
"The [tax] regime lowers the burden, of course, but it offers a
solution to the extent that they it only delays the reforms. That's
half a step ahead in terms of winning time. But because all that has
to be implemented based on the new draft law - I mean the reforms -
I hope we will be able to conduct comprehensive debates once it goes
to the National Assembly," he told Tert.am.
Asked whether the temporary delay is expected to silence the
protesters, Melkumyan said he doesn't think that those people are
simple-minded enough to satisfy themselves with that.
Commenting on the problem, Stepan Aslanyan, Presidnet of the Armenian
Association of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, said he is positive
on the prime minister's decision.
"They will offer approaches and methods. I think the discussion at
the prime minister's office was quite normal and constructive. And
I believe they will agree on a mutually acceptable solution," he added.
Aslanyan said he doesn't think that the government's move is aimed at
silencing the protesting vendors. "We have institutions whom we do not
have the right to distrust. If a promise has been made by the National
Assembly's speaker and the president, we have no moral right not to
believe them," he said, expressing hopes for a positive solution.
Samson Grigoryan, a vendor who attended the meeting with the prime
minister, said he does not think that the decision fully resolves
all the problems but expressed hope that it would help at least to
regulate the documentation procedures. "What we ask for it so demand
documents from big [businesses] so that we could submit papers too,
in future," he explained.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian
10:50 * 08.10.14
In response to fair vendors' continuing protests against the new Tax
Circulation Law, Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan has promised
government efforts to revise several controversial provisions.
After a meeting with several protesting vendors on Monday, he issued
an instruction asking the minister of finance to elaborate and submit
to the parliament a new draft law.
But the measure is not found satisfactory, as vendors do not expect
it to offer an exhaustive solution to the problem.
The controversial law, which went into effect on October 1, requires
inventory and document circulation procedures for all small- and
medium-sized businesses in Armenia.
Mikael Melkumyan of the opposition-leaning Prosperous Armenia party
is of the opinion that the government efforts will be limited only to
delaying the effective date of the relevant provision until February 1.
"The [tax] regime lowers the burden, of course, but it offers a
solution to the extent that they it only delays the reforms. That's
half a step ahead in terms of winning time. But because all that has
to be implemented based on the new draft law - I mean the reforms -
I hope we will be able to conduct comprehensive debates once it goes
to the National Assembly," he told Tert.am.
Asked whether the temporary delay is expected to silence the
protesters, Melkumyan said he doesn't think that those people are
simple-minded enough to satisfy themselves with that.
Commenting on the problem, Stepan Aslanyan, Presidnet of the Armenian
Association of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, said he is positive
on the prime minister's decision.
"They will offer approaches and methods. I think the discussion at
the prime minister's office was quite normal and constructive. And
I believe they will agree on a mutually acceptable solution," he added.
Aslanyan said he doesn't think that the government's move is aimed at
silencing the protesting vendors. "We have institutions whom we do not
have the right to distrust. If a promise has been made by the National
Assembly's speaker and the president, we have no moral right not to
believe them," he said, expressing hopes for a positive solution.
Samson Grigoryan, a vendor who attended the meeting with the prime
minister, said he does not think that the decision fully resolves
all the problems but expressed hope that it would help at least to
regulate the documentation procedures. "What we ask for it so demand
documents from big [businesses] so that we could submit papers too,
in future," he explained.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: A. Papazian